Politics
Congress
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: Brief biographies of all current and past members of congress, going back to 1774
- CQ: Available on NPC computers
- Committee on Rules: Official rules by which the House of Representatives is governed
- Congresspedia: Encyclopedia on Congress that can be edited by anyone
- LegiStorm: Databases of congressional staff salaries and congressional trips
- Office of the Clerk: Official site of the Office of the Clerk for the U.S. House of Representatives
- Open Hearings: Schedule of upcoming hearings, live audio and video from hearings in progress
- Project Vote Smart: Biographical information, campaign finance details, issue positions, interest group ratings, voting records, and public statements from elected officials and candidates running for state, and national offices
- WashingtonWatch.com: Tracks the bills in Congress, along with estimates about their costs or savings, when available.
Contemporary Politics
- Campaigns & Elections Magazine: Political blogs directory
- Constituency Data and Key Votes for the Current Congress
- The Poynter Institute: List of sites journalists can go to for politics
Government Documents
- Electronic Briefing Books: Provides online access to declassified records from the National Security Archives on issues including U.S. national security, foreign policy, diplomatic and military history, intelligence policy, and more
- GPO: Access U.S. Government Printing Office provides free electronic access to Federal Government documents
- LOUISE: The ultimate goal of LOUIS (Library Of Unified Information Sources) is to create a comprehensive, completely indexed and cross-referenced depository of federal documents from the executive and legislative branches of government"
- Open CRS: Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports already in the public domain
- Sunshine In Government Initiative: SGI maintains the FOIA Files, a database of government documents released in response to FOIA requests
- Thomas: Find Legislation, Congressional Record text, Committee information from the House and Senate
- Declassified Documents: National Security Archives
- Columbia University
- CGP:Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
Government Watchdogs
- Center for Public Integrity: CPI maintains several databases of information collected during their investigations, as well as the reports produced by the investigations
- Citizens Against Government Waste: Provides access to the Complete Pork Database, the CCAGW ratings, and other reports on government pork
- Earmark Watch: User created guide to who is receiving earmarks and what the recipient has done to receive the earmark
- Project on Government Oversight
- OpenSecrets
- Open Congress
- Center for Effective Government
- Judicial Watch
- Sunlight Foundation
State & Local
- State Government websites
- Stateline: Daily reporting and analysis on trends in state policy
- State and Local Government on the Internet
- State Statutes: Full-text state statutes and legislation
History of Politics
- The American Presidency Project: Historical archives of speeches, election statistics, public papers, and issues of the presidency . over 52,000 documents online
- Center for American Women in Politics: Compiles information about women in government and politics.
- History of the presidency and the nature of policy making: The Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia
Covering Washington
- Washington Beat Book: Contacts in government agencies
Iraq
- CNN :U.S. and Coalition casualties plus current and background news and information
- Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Headlines from Iraqi newspapers
- Iraq Index Archive from the Brookings Institution: Tracking Reconstruction and Security in Post-Saddam Iraq
- Iraq Coalition Casualty Count: Detailed breakdown of U.S. casualties
- The Struggle for Iraq: Comprehensive background and news on the conflict
Law
- The Internet Law Library: Provides links to a large number of legal resources relating to American (federal and state) and foreign laws
- LawyerExpress: Links to legal news, periodicals, legal reference and fed and state law sites
- Legal Information Institute: LII offers all US Supreme Court opinions since 1992, over 600 earlier decisions selected for their historic importance, the full US Code, and topic guides to roughly 100 areas of law.
Polls
- The Gallup Brain: Searchable, living record of 70 years of public opinion
- Gallup Organization Polling Topics and Trends
- The George Washington University Battleground Poll: Collaborative bi-partisan survey produced by Republican strategist Ed Goeas of The Tarrance Group and Democrat Celinda Lake of Lake Snell Perry and Associates
- Mason-Dixon: Is an independent polling firm and an active state polling organization.
- Polling Report:Public opinion online covers many topics, including election 2008
- Quinnipiac University's Polling Center
- The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research: Has comparative Presidential approval ratings from a variety of polls
- Washington Post-ABC News Polls and Opinion Surveys
State of the Union Resources
- American Presidency Project: A gold mine of SOTU addresses and other documents of the Presidents
- AskSam: Free searchable version of the State of the Union addresses of the American Presidents
- C-SPAN: 1989-2006 videos of SOTU addresses
- Opposition responses to the SOTU: History and list of Senate responses
- US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud: A different look at past speeches by IT manager Chirag Mehta
Terrorism
- Council on Foreign Relations: Current issues regarding terrorism
- University of Michigan Documents Center: Topics from 2001 to the present